NLCS - Diamondbacks versus Rockies - Game One GDT

[Dback Jon]

Come on DREW!!!

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Tying run coming up to the plate.

 

[Cheesebeef]

come on! don't need a HR, just a base knock, score a couple runs and keep the inning going! Let's see it Drew!

damn, Young was close on that rocket foul.

 

[mjb21aztd]

lets get a base hit nows the time

 

[mjb21aztd]

wtf drew... way to make him work

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

First pitch pop up, way to go...

 

[Dback Jon]

Crap - way to cost us the game Drew, right CT??

 

[Cheesebeef]

sheesh.

 

[PoolBoy]

sidenote....pena is goooood

 

[PoolBoy]

here we goooooooooooooooooooooooo comeback!

 

[Stallion]

Pretty embarrassing night all around so far.

Gotta bounce back...

 

[Black Jesus]

That wasnt drews fault... he got a good first pitch to hit and he swung hard and just lifted it, it was still deep. If he had it down just a bit we would be talking grandslam, thats how hard he hit it.

 

[PoolBoy]

wow...thats obviously how this game would end.

 

[Lefty]

It's only one game but tomorrow is a must win.

 

[Cheesebeef]

oye! Well, that was ugly.

Okay Backs, you've won the games you've absolutely HAD to win all season long - biggie tomorrow! Nut up boys!

 

[Dback Jon]

Montero's hit epitomized that game...

 

[Dback Jon]

Shake it off - we came out flat.

But everything that could go right for Colorado did, and everything that could go wrong for Arizona did as well.

And the Rocky homer will not be behind the plate tomorrow.

 

[hsandhu]

I'm usually not pessimistic, but just the whole atmosphere tonight kinda made me feel we would be lucky to win a game. It was the same feeling I had when we got swept by the cards in 2002.

But... even if that happens it still has been a great year.

 

[ArizonaSportsFan]

At least the Suns won their preseason opener...

Tough night for the Snakes. The problem is that the two offenses scored right around their averages for the season (kidding, of course, it only seems like it). Bad matchup for the DBacks.

 

[thirty-two]

yeah, that sucked

 

[Dback Jon]

Rockies Hawpe to it in opening win of NLCS
Rockies Hawpe to it in opening win of NLCS

By Steve Henson, Yahoo! Sports
October 11, 2007





PHOENIX – The distance from edgy first pitch to hand-slapping final out is easily navigated by the streaking Colorado Rockies these days.

All it took Thursday was a Hawpe, flip and an ump.

The Rockies dispatched the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1 at Chase Field in Game 1 of the National League championship series with early offense against ace Brandon Webb and a controversial call that muted the only serious rally the Diamondbacks mounted after the first inning.

Outfielder Brad Hawpe continued his career-long dominance of Webb, keying a three-run third inning with a bases-loaded, two-out single. Hawpe singled twice and walked against the Diamondbacks' right-hander, raising his lifetime average against him to .375. He's 11-for-17 this year off Webb.

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If Hawpe established the Rockies' momentum, a call by second base umpire Larry Vanover in the seventh inning kept it from ebbing.

The Diamondbacks put two runners aboard with none out against left-hander Jeff Francis, who had stymied them after a rough first inning. Augie Ojeda hit a chopper to third baseman Garrett Atkins, who threw to second for a force out.

Justin Upton, the Diamondbacks' precocious 20-year-old outfielder, slid hard into second baseman Kazuo Matsui, but it was his ensuing body block that flipped Matsui and prompted Vanover to call interference – meaning Ojeda was also out and that Chris Snyder had to return from third base to second.

The call seemed ticky-tack, yet technically correct. Even some of the Rockies weren't sure about it.

"I thought it was a good, hard slide," Colorado first baseman Todd Helton said. "It certainly was a momentum changer."

 

[Mulli]

That headline is so dumb.

 

[mjb21aztd]

well I hope the dbacks play like the real dbacks tonight because if they don't and we lose we can kiss the playoffs goodbye But even if they lose this series it has been a remarkable season and good stuff to look forward to in the future

 

[crisper57]

B. Webb never seems to get run support. Davis does. The bats come alive tonight, the D-Backs play with fire, and we knock the Rockies all the way back to Colorado.